Ex Parte Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
1Opinion of the Court
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ("Met Life") petitions for a writ of mandamus directing Mobile County Circuit Judge Douglas I. Johnstone: (1) to refrain from exercising jurisdiction over any discovery matters in a certain action pending in the Mobile Circuit Court, Susette E. Williams, etal. v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., et al., CV-96-3247 ("Williams "); and (2) to vacate the discovery order entered by Judge Johnstone on July 16, 1997, in Williams. This mandamus petition relates to ostensibly conflicting discovery orders relating to Williams. Judge Ferrill D. McRae, also of the Mobile…
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